Sentences with phrase «running joke of»

The running joke of the third entry is that Sharknado is able to compete with other major franchises.

This running joke of the Metal Gear series is a nod to the fans, who always have to wait several years for a new entry in Snake's adventures.

Thus begins the running joke of ex-theatre wunderkind Martin McDonagh's clever, savvy and enjoyable revamp of the odd - couple / gangster caper, a genre picture confident its own audience - pleasing verbal sparrings, joke - enabling moral sophistry and tongue - in - cheek classical and cinematic borrowings — from Hieronymus Bosch's «Last Judgement» to Nic Roeg's «Don't Look Now» and every belfry, picaresque canal and famous seventeenth - century building in the «Venice of the North».

Not a complete waste of time, and I'd go so far as to suggest that you listen to it as the primary option in every scene that doesn't include Michael Caine, while a running joke of Bullock referring to Bratt as only «Handsome Ben» is actually not a bad explanation of Bratt's relative success.

Before the New York Post wrote about Jacque Reid's reversal of her decision to participate in my coaching, I was often the running joke of online... [Read more...]

Before the New York Post wrote about Jacque Reid's reversal of her decision to participate in my coaching, I was often the running joke of online media in the so - called «black space.»

on (Video) Christian Eriksen continued the running joke of calling the MotM trophy a «brick» post Tottenham 3 - 2 West Ham

There is another signature of Alabama losses, one that is discussed less often but that had become a running joke of its own.

Prediction: One of the running jokes of this particular awards season is that anyone hoping to win their office Oscar pool might be best off just picking La La Land in every category.

Not exact matches

It's hard to find a good accountant»» so hard, in fact, that it has become something of a running joke in the small business world.

Fast - food employees have been the butt of jokes for decades, and with good reason — with annual turnover for the industry topping as much as 50 percent, running a shift can be like monitoring an unruly detention hall.

He joked with reporters about the possibility earlier this month, and then sought to clarify by saying he had «no intention» of running.

He cites a running joke he had with Marc Andreessen: «I think Silicon Valley could be 10 to 20 times bigger if 80 percent of the companies were led better.»

Here's an oral history of that running joke; the pseudo-scientific explanations of time travel are delightful.

There is a running joke, at the expense of both Fox and officious security.

The events that followed have led to a bit of a running joke in the Bitcoin community, that BFL will ship in «just two weeks».

Buterin took to Twitter to dispel the joke, as well as to explore its unintended popularity and remind people that he has thought about the downside of «long - run - inflationary tokens.»

One of my former colleagues, Rob Marianski, and I used to have a running joke — we would be building and debugging something, and he'd...

The perpetual joke at the end of every 10 Mario Challenge run informing you that the Princess is in yet another castle hints at Super Mario Maker's bigger promise: There will always be more levels to play thanks to the online creation community, and a virtually endless pool of challenges to overcome.»

One of the longest running jokes amongst economists who follow China is that China can manufacture any economic figure they want.

A 2,000 year and running practical joke (at least since the start of the Zombie Jesus part of the story).

This must be one of the longest - running April Fool's jokes on record!

James Corden, a British comedian who hosts the Late, Late Show ran into this reality, last Friday night, after joking about Harvey Weinstein's alleged sexual harassment and rape of dozens of women.

I was voted Pope (no joke) and I ran on a platform of agnosticism.

He called you by your last name (a practice I use to this day), he had a way of instilling fear into kids who would goof - off and cause distractions in other classes (a practice I was very much unable to duplicate during my one - year stint as an 8th - grade English teacher), and you had to run the gauntlet of sentence - diagramming grammar, which advanced to a pretty complex level, before the more «cool - teacher» aspects of Mr. Pacilio were unveiled — and even then, the tests on those rock songs were no joke!

Dan and I have a running joke that if A Year of Biblical Womanhood flops, I can always revert to Plan B: «fall» off the treadmill, claim to go to Purgatory for the duration of my blackout, and then write a guaranteed bestseller entitled 7 Minutes in Purgatory.

With clever running jokes and story arcs that span episodes and even seasons, Arrested Development is the kind of show that's made for binge - watching.

And I freely admit I sometimes use too many extraneous, space - consuming, overly - descriptive, qualifying, words or sentences written quickly and in a stream - of - conscientiousness, run - on sort of fashion with occasional typos mostly due to fatigue of being up way too late (which also explains this post in general) after a long day of political discussion which refreshingly had little religious content though of course there is often much overlap between the two but posting is barely a hobby but more of an occasional passtime so now i wonder if what I write could be considered abuse as I've can't really recall seeing much if any sorrt of «text filibustering» not that this is exactly filibustering more a spontaneous text performance response joke and meant in jest to be absurdly long and useless so of course i hope you appreciate the spirit.

Check out NPR's catalog of every running joke in the show — though I suspect that even this catalog is not comprehensive.

All jokes aside, I have serious respect for Andrea, and it's not just because when I met my husband, we tended a 1/2 acre garden behind my house and had dreams of running our own farm some day.

I guess that's why some people think I'm joking when I tell them that Hillstone Restaurant Group runs some of my favorite places to eat in the country.

By the end of the show, our mouths were permanently hanging wide open and we joked about how my brother's New Year's Resolution would be to run away and join Cirque de Soleil!

It's beyond jokes how some of these players contracts were left to run down.

The whole thing might've already cost the university more than $ 14 million, and the Vols are burning through so many potential candidates, the internet's running out of jokes about it.

For years now the long - running joke has been that FIA stands for «Ferrari International Assistance», and Bernie claimed that those in the sport (with the exception of race director Charlie Whiting) have been helping to keep Ferrari a front - running team.

Outside of a long - running joke, the only hangup was finding a shelter to give the dozen or so Rams shirts and jerseys I had collected over the years.

only in arsenal i hear 3 first team players are running out of contract pure joke

If Newcastle United's dramatic transformation from running joke with a dead manager walking into one of the Premier League's form teams and slayers of Chelsea can be narrowed down to one thing, it would have to be Alan Pardew's decision to move French midfielder Moussa Sissoko into the centre of the park, where he has begun to control games with a potent mixture of physicality and creativity.

please stop these silly articles this is a joke Wenger would die rather than play 7 defenders in his team he is no mourinho are u influenced by him there is no problem with this formation our past 2 seasons best performances have come playing this formation and about your one time theory this season only we beat manu that lead us to a run of fa cup and we won that so do your homework properly.

but the atmosphere at emirates is sad like terrible u look at anfield and it hurts me because we're such poorly ran club from fans point view we're are diehards all splits all over stadium joke we need leaders at arsenal top too bottom but this arsenal is not arsenal of old were is our Tony Adams ray palour, we're is our pride how dear man Utd get Sanchez like how dear even ask pride is word here folks we have none as in overheads us fans are joke like boycott next game stay away or go and stand outside stadium for full match stand together stand tall we will be heard we are arsenal we are there customers we are Gona make change but by money cause that's wat this club is money and Sanchez Utd proves it

The 25 year - old became something of a running joke among fans of both United and England, leading to Cleverley himself suggesting that his style of football, which tends to be largely possession based, being less appreciated in the Premier League than it would be overseas, notably in Spain.

One of the most respected clubs in the world has now become the butt of all jokes, and are now a great example of how NOT to run a club.

Instead of blaming others — Linesman, Referees, other Managers etc, he might use his energies to changing the way Football is run in Europe which, in my opinion, is a joke.

Welbeck together with Giroud is always a joke and always looks painful on the eye, the formations becomes robotic and mechanical where Danny just runs out of position time and time again trying to chase every ball blindly, after 25 minutes he is knocked out tired in his feet.

Your summation was spot on and any serious Arsenal fan or merely general football fan who is aware of the sick joke «running» of our club can not fail to see, if they are sane, what a shambles the whole club is in and has increasingly been in since David Dein left a decade ago.

Far from being a well organised and disciplined transfer policy it's a joke run by a bunch of jokers with a manager who behaves as if he is trapped in a world of football fairy tales and has lost his grip on reality.

Bregman, the No. 2 overall pick in the 2015 draft, popped out in the seventh inning when in need of a home run to get a cycle, then joked on microphone during the MLB Network broadcast, «That was about as close as it gets to leaving the yard.»

Or running out of mind games bottom line jokes.

Leslie Combs jokes — but is serious — about his wonderful Spendthrift water, and Joe O'Farrell preaches about the mineral properties in the belt of land that runs through Ocala, Fla..

Forget Alex, where does it leave Danny?!?! All jokes aside Wenger is too stubborn and faithful to give up that early on a player, he'll probably just interchange them out of position, maybe both at the same time and give AMN a run out up top we never know